Trump Slams ‘Weak and Passive’ Schumer on Iran: ‘No Clue as to the Danger’

ShutterstockSenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, left, wrote an open letter to the nation's intelligence chiefs Wednesday urging them to hit back at President Donald Trump's comments about the country's intelligence agencies. Trump, meanwhile, called Schumer "weak and passive" on Iran. (Shutterstock)

By Evie Fordham
Published January 31, 2019 at 9:52am
Modified January 31, 2019 at 2:16pm

President Donald Trump accused Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for being “weak and passive” on Iran policy via Twitter on Thursday, a day after the leading Democrat weighed in on Trump’s criticism of his intelligence chiefs.

“Schumer and the Democrats are big fans of being weak and passive with Iran,” Trump wrote.

“They have no clue as to the danger they would be inflicting on our Country. Iran is in financial chaos now because of the sanctions and Iran Deal termination. Dems put us in a bad place – but now good!”

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Schumer and the Democrats are big fans of being weak and passive with Iran. They have no clue as to the danger they would be inflicting on our Country. Iran is in financial chaos now because of the sanctions and Iran Deal termination. Dems put us in a bad place – but now good!

Trump had suggested that members of the intelligence community “should go back to school” for failing to grasp the volatility of Iran Wednesday after the release of the annual “Worldwide Threat Assessment” Tuesday, according to CBS News.

According to Politico, Schumer wrote a letter urging three of Trump’s intel chiefs — CIA Director Gina Haspel, FBI Director Christopher Wray and Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats — to push back Wednesday.

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“You cannot allow the president’s ill-advised and unwarranted comments today to stand,” Schumer wrote according to Politico.

“He is putting you and your colleagues in an untenable position and hurting the national interest in the process. You must find a way to make that clear to him.”

The agreement still stands as a deal between Iran and countries other than the U.S.

According to The Times, Coats’ testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee belied Trump’s statements that Iran continues to pose a nuclear danger.

“We do not believe Iran is currently undertaking activities we judge necessary to produce a nuclear devices,” Coats said.

The Times acknowledged, however, that Coats said that Iranian officials have “publicly threatened to push the boundaries” of the nuclear agreement if it did not see benefits that were promised, including a resumption of oil sales and an end to American sanctions against its financial transactions around the world.

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